It turns out that plain old incompetence by a national governing body can also have disastrous effects on a team
In an industry that has in recent years been rife with corruption scandals and kickbacks, shot through with slush funds and court cases, citizens of any particular country could be forgiven for just hoping that their national governing body doesn’t commit outright fraud.
That both sides of this negotiation have differing views on fair compensation is not surprising, but the shocking part is that Canada Soccer let it come to this point.
Canada’s Junior Hoilett celebrates scoring with teammates in a World Cup Qualifier at BMO Field in Toronto on March 27, 2022.They aren’t wrong about that, but the timing is key: When Canada Soccer was making that deal in 2019, it was selling a product for which there was little or no market. The country’s big sports broadcasters had no interest in paying for national-team broadcast rights, and no desire to televise a would-be upstart domestic professional league.
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